Inside Hollywood sources are indicating that director J.J. Abrams will decide to take the helm once again on Star Trek 2. Abrams, whose Spielberg-esque science fiction film Super 8 debuts on June 10th and could be the summer’s sleeper hit, is expected to announce that he will direct the Star Trek sequel shortly. The problem is that there is almost no way that Abrams will be able to make the announced June 29th, 2012 opening date for the Star Trek sequel.

 

Deadline, which reported that Abrams is likely to direct the film, speculates that Paramount will push the opening of Star Trek 2 back at least six month. As Deadline points out, the writing trio of Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman and Damon Lindelof have been extremely busy on other projects lately. Roberto Orci admitted to trekmovie.com that the writers were waiting to hear back from Abrams that he likes the story before turning their 70-page outline into a script.

 

Even with a finished script, 13 months is hardly enough time to create a modern vfx-heavy tentpole—and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is a good example of what happens when a director decides to shoot right from an outline instead of a script.